Lone Star Weighs Sale of German Lender IKB After Nearly 20 Years Lone Star Funds' potential sale of IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG has been a long time coming.
The implications go beyond the fate of this single German lender, however.
As one of the most prominent private equity firms in the world, Lone Star's involvement in IKB nearly two decades ago was seen as a vote of confidence in European finance, particularly in Germany.